IB Case Study

Hello,

I was invited to do a case study interview as part of the next stage of the process.

I was told I’d be given 2 hours to build a DCF and fill out PPT template slides.

Materials provided will be a few qualitative pages on the company (24 hours in advance so I have time to read through them), and an income statement and balance sheet on the day of.

I’ve done a DCF of course but the 2 hour time limit is making me question:

- will a quick and dirty wacc, making assumptions instead of pulling betas be okay here if they don’t supply one?

- any thoughts on high level pages I should be prepared to create for the qualitative portion of the case study?

- does anyone have similar case study examples I can study with? 

thank you!

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Was your comment necessary? Pretty sure I didn’t ask for a tutorial - my questions were specific to prepare for a situation where I’m under time pressure and have limited info. If you work in banking I’m sure you know you rarely have 1 hour to put together a dcf from scratch without knowing what assumptions you’ll have already, so apologies for trying to over prepare

 

This is such a stupid process to do a case study. Half the time the MD will just throw in random numbers to arrive at a valuation.  

 

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